New media artist, product designer, and researcher Chelsi Cocking will share her personal career journey back into creative coding and media art through the making of the interactive art installation 'Illuminate.' ​

'Illuminate' is an interactive art installation that visually augments a person's movements in real time using custom-coded interactive visualization software. It has been nominated for the 2024 SXSW Innovation Awards, is an honoree in the 2024 Webby Awards in the "AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience" category, and is an honoree in the 2024 Core77 Design Awards in the "Built Environment" category. ​

Chelsi Cocking, born in Kingston, Jamaica, uses computing and media technologies to create visual art, design, and interactive experiences. Her projects often explore understanding the human body and its movement through computing, creating novel interactive art experiences ​

Chelsi is a Digital Media Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, working in the Expressive Machinery Lab. She holds a Master’s from MIT Media Lab, where she worked with Zach Lieberman. Previously, she was a product designer at Dropbox, leading the design of Dropbox Preview, Dropbox Family, and redesigning Dropbox Photos.